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So what? If it works and is convenient why not use it? I try not to get stuck in free software religion like Stallman is.

People like you are missing the point about free software. You're too young or ignorant to really understand the idea or what it has given to you.

Try to imagine a world without free software. A world where every program is developed in secrecy and sold by corporations. Where there are no hackers or coders who do it for the sheer enjoyment of coding, instead only worker drones for large software corporations pushing code in a thankless 9-5 cubicle. Users are all demoted to the role of passive consumption, instead of active participation. You won't be able to control what your computer does, as you're only it's user - there's no ideology to support the idea that a user must have full control of their hardware, so every computer, every OS, is riddled with DRM and trusted computing schemes. If you try to copy files that are marked as copyrighted, your computer won't let you. If you try to save eg. video streams on your hard disk, your computer won't let you. Every time you try to perform an action your computer/OS manufacturer has deemed illegal, probably because it goes against other corporate interests, your computer just goes "I can't let you do that, Dave" and maybe reports you on some universal naughty list. There's no such thing as net neutrality, tor, piratism, freedom of speech - all is controlled by corporate interest. No peer-to-peer networks exist, everything follows a top-down passive consumption model.

See, THAT is the world your "convenience" brings you. That is the cost of ignoring freedom. Free software is not a religion, it is a way to guarantee that the user has some power against the corporations, that the user is in control of their hardware and software. It's digital activism. Hacker ethics. Stallman might be extreme in his views, but it's good that someone like him exists, to bring a balance to all these greedy sellouts who'd forget their free software roots in a heartbeat to make a quick buck.

So what? If it works and is convenient why not use it? I try not to get stuck in free software religion like Stallman is.

Well some of us don't believe in giving up free software for 'convenience' especially when that convenience involves sending everything I type into the dash to a proprietary server. That is just about the very definition of spyware... And being tracked like that is one of the MAJOR points against proprietary software for everyone at the free software camp. It's one of the reasons the FSF was founded in the first place!

Ethics aside, I'm now wondering what awesome new convenience feature Ubuntu will ship with this release? 12.04 had the HUD, 12.10 had the whole web apps thing and dash previews. What's 13.04 bringing to the table? I thought the smart scopes were it's big awesome feature?